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Project name
Discovery City
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Location
Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Principal architect
Gianluca Racana
Design team
Aditya Ambare, Alex Nap, Andrei-Ciprian Cojocaru, Bahaa Alnassrallah, Ceren Tekin, Disha Shetty, Jillian Nishi, Maria Lagging, Ryan Anthony Szanyi, Shi Qi Tu, Shibani Choudhury
Collaborators
GRANT Associates, Ramboll, Maurizio Meossi, HIJJAS KASTURI ASSOCIATES SDN BHD, APUDG Sdn Bhd, WAA Design Sdn Bhd
Visualization
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Client
Johor Corporation (JCorp)
Typology
Residential Architecture
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